Lol, @slybevel asked me the same thing before posting the first one. I said leave it up, wait and see if it gets hurtful. But I think it’s right to trust the BBS.
Don’t you mean sorey?
There’s a job for you at SETI with that kind of go-get-em attitude!
The cap on read requirements to reach TL3 is now in and deployed here:
You may see a few more new regulars that couldn’t quite reach the previous, dynamically scaled read requirement levels (see my quote above).
I suggest this “loveable, maddening, required” stuff be split out into a different topic, please.
And “tl3 time period” is what you called “interval” above, viz. 100 days?
Last 100 days. Yep. That has not changed.
I realize this topic has shifted mainly to what constitutes a regular, but I have an idea for a non-disruptive but potentially discussion enhancing perk for Regulars that I just pulled out of my ass: Golden likes.
Sometimes you love something so much that you want to like it twice. I propose you should get a max of ten and have to be a regular. I think it would be fun. I have a feeling this is not an uncontroversial proposal.
ETA: Ten a week. (Sorry @Mindysan33.)
Wait… why are you apologizing to me?
And FWIW, I second this idea! Although are the Golden likes separate or rolled into our already expanded likes?
I dunno, I feel like you’re always complaining about running out of likes.
Golden likes, in my conception of them, are a completely separate stat, that will probably carry it’s own badges. They show up in the reply toolbar (or whatever @codinghorror calls it) as a seperate symbol.
This is my rationale for the system: Likes are abundant. Despite some people running out of them, I feel this is the exception, and not the rule. @codinghorror has written on his blog more than a few times about the importance of “gamifying” the commenting process to encourage great discussion. With likes as they are currently conceived, I think a lot of them go to rewarding GIF copypasta (and as an avid user of GIF copypasta, I’m not objecting to the practice.) I want to see a more contemplative, more “elite” like system that is designed to reward comments that really make you stop and think. I think that users who have them (Regulars) will start to think about what comments deserve this reward, and users who want them will strive to make thoughtful, well-considered, and intelligent commentary.
Hell, the more I think about it, the more I’d want golden likes to be especially rare. Everytime I comment I revise my proposal for the number of golden likes down and now I’m thinking maybe five a week or ten a month. Also, I think it’s a nice perk for Regulars who don’t necessarily feel the need to change topic titles, and don’t consider it much of a perk.
Only accidentally.
We would all be called Boaty McBoatface before long.
And yet @anon50609448 and @milliefink still aren’t regulars here, for all that they contribute.
As Jeff keeps pointing out, it’s the reading that holds us back.
He has been, then he slacked off doing work of something else silly.
The balance is still wrong. There are ‘regulars’ here with < 100 posts made, and hardly any likes given, but a large read post count.
That’s not a ‘regular’, that’s a ‘lurker’ (maybe a new badge for a massive read:write imbalance?)
(Hi, @hotel!)
Transubstantiated and unsubstantiated
It’s true… I am. But also @chgoliz… In fact, I need to wait 3 hours before i can like your comment!
But I like your concept of golden likes here… and now we just got a huge new influx of regulars, as @codinghorror changed the rules for regular status… Having something like this seems more attractive perhaps? I dunno! It seems like a good idea to me, though.
I run out of likes virtually every day, and griped about it a lot for a while, but now have just accepted that the like system is going to be permanently broken and punitive to some users, so I only complain a bit at the permanently broken, punitive, poorly designed anti-feature of the like limit.
Maybe I should incorporate more fiber into my diet?